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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > the only thing I wanted to run that required a newer 
> > library was Opera, 
> 
> Before you install glibc2.2, make sure that is what the
> new Opera needs.  It might be up to glibc2.3 by now.

Opera is available for Redhat 7 which apparently uses 2.2.

> 
> > to compile my own kernel 2.4 or whatever number they 
> > are up to by now if some program needs that too
> 
> The newer kernels are a minefield of options.  Select the
> wrong one (eg. devfs) and your old filesystem won't boot
> properly (unless you add the devfs=nomount parameter to 
> loadlin).
> 
> > I can compile without networking 
> 
> Don't forget that PPP requires networking capability.

Okay, I forgot.  I will ask for help if I ever compile a kernel.
I might try out sound first and then think about adding that to a kernel 
for BL2, since other people are also interested in that.

> 
> > is there anything else that I might want to add or subtract?
> 
> If the kernel is going to be for one specific computer, 
> optimize the kernel for that CPU (there is an obvious
> option for that in the config).  If you only need a few
> modules, hardwire them into the kernel instead of making
> modules (turning off the kernel's module-loading capability
> should make it smaller/faster).  Turn off all unneeded
> capabilities (there are hundreds of options).

You mean select for pentium rather than 386?  Only module I can think of 
adding right now is sound.  What might I want to subtract that you 
included?  I looked briefly at what you did with the kernel but did not 
understand much of it.  I want to keep supporting 360K and 720K floppy 
drives (which at least one of the newer commercial linuxes did not do), 2 
controllers, PCI but not SCSI, CD-ROM drive, possibly DVD if that needs 
something extra, not PCMCIA.

Hey, I can use lynx while writing email!  I notice you have 
loadable-module support (reading kernel config file at your website - I 
wish I had the 2-monitor setup rather than switching between terminals on 
one screen) and you say I can omit that.

Do I need NETDEVICES and ETHERNET support?  I have no interest in network 
cards, since we have file transfer cables.  Could the entire ETHERNET 
section be omitted?

Can printer support be built into the kernel instead of using modules?
How about support for whatever the dialing program uses?  That would 
simplify use of BL2, no need to load modules even automatically.

No need for a busmouse module.  Do we need NTFS module?  I don't think I 
have used it.

CONFIG SOUND is not set.  I would have to set that somehow I think.

More on this later when I get sound working.  And first I need to compile 
openssl and then lynx-ssl 2.8.5.

My partner Jim just got DJGPP to work by unzipping the files with DOS to 
use with DOS and with Windows to use in a DOS box. Otherwise you get ~1 
files that don't work in DOS.  The program will accept truncated files 
when running in DOS.  Also DJGPP won't accept PI but will accept Pi, and 
it does not like leftover (, which gpp and WIndows compiler accept.
He can now calculate the volume of a sphere in 3 OS's.  Eventually he will 
know enough to help compile a kernel.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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